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discounted 10 per cent if paid within HERE WE COME ME BESTAND CUEAPEST FLOUR la tk market. It will cost you nothing to try it, everj barrel it warranted, and tbe money rtfouded if Dot HAtla'wtory. , I ftlao Bk 4 fpecialty of 11 kinds of FEED in Urge and imall qiuntitie fKKlC DELIVERY II. WAMSLISY. 17J Indiana At., lmHanapmllsInd. RUSSELL & JACOBS, II m 56 Indiana Avenue, (Jott Me aim IS t 25 Cents. All persons Tislting tbs city are inrited to give us a call. 1ml W. F. RUPP. 2CST. RÖSBERG. V. F. RUPP & CO , Merchant Tailors, 23 E. Washington Street, Indianapolis, Ind. iyi W. H. POTTER, PHOTOGRAPHER, Cor. Washington and Illinois its., 10 Clay pool Block, Indianapolis, Ind. in PETER ROCKER, Dftlt-r in all kinds of H1I, lim PRODUCE, FLOUR AND PEED, 404 WEST y ORT II STREET, JLnd 202 West Maryland St. A. CAYLOR, Wkoloaalo and Retail Dealer in WOOD, GOAL AND COKE, PLOUB AND PEED, it 1 77 Indiana Ave DR. 17. H. DAVIS, Office. 42 E. Ohio St. Residence, 40 N. Mississippi St. 2ml G. W. WALKER, PROPRIETOR Or mam wagons. Kos. 62. 63 and 64. Stand vn Circle Street, Indianapolis, lnd. All ardftra BromDtW attended to. and satisfaction ntnttNd. Moving PIANOS a specialty. L orders with Tbeo. Pfmfflin A Co., second floor Odd Fellows' Hall, Corner Washington and Peaa. Street. Residence S15 Miami street. NEW DRUG STORE. CAOTETTER & CO. 2fo, 183 Indiana Ave., PURE DRUGS AflÖ MEDIQ1HES, w i Tnaaa PtlT.i. .iim' PrvKrlDtions a dDeclaltv Day or Night. Come di se as. . - - - - m DR. T. N. WATSON. PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, 458 East North St. Atlofasy at Law and Hotary PuWio, OFFICE WESLEY BLOCK, REAR 28 INDIANA AVENUE. Join Kidd. 5 oah . Parker. PARKER & ICIDD, Attorneys-at-Law, E00M3 23 and 20 THORPE BLOCK. 87 EAST MARKET ST. J. 180 Indiana Ave. WHOLESALE AHD BETAIL DEALER IN CIGÄR0 ÄO TOBACCO. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Brands J. A. E. AND CELESTE.

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biiaitiC'B, I former price. 66 4. .5Ü 46 6 66 66 66 64 6 6 66 7.50 20 00 V5.UO 27.50 20.00 25.00 27.50 15 South Meridian St. five days. GO TO STOUT, mi una & -mim t FOR BARGAINS, 76 EAST WASniyGTON ST. STEPHEN CRAY, MERCHANT TAILOR, N o. 18 North Pennsylvania St. ffTLook at Gray'i for Fall Salts and OTorcoatt. h Watson Goal d Mining Go. WHOLESALE AND BETAIL Dealers la all kinds of COAL ahd C0S2S, H. E. DREW, Manager. Office, No. 14 North Pennsylvania St., and 15 North Illinois Street, INDIANAPOLIS. J. P. MAUER & SON, DEALERS IN GROCERIES, PEODUOE. PLOUE AND PEED; WINES, I.IQCORS AND CIGARS. lm3 Cor. IUak and Elizabeth Sis. LUNCH AND DINING ROOM, Booms, 66 W. Washington St. OPBIW DAT WIOHT MEALS 25 CENTS. 3m3 THE IMUMPOLIS LEWR. 4 TO SUBSCRIBERS. If you fail to receive your pa per, notify this ofllce at once. To Our Patrons. We do not exaggerate when we say that the cordiality with which The Leader has everywhere been received I n H tin substantial encouragement of I " cj . , , i lour irienas, wniio anu vuiuruu, ao I ' gone far beyond our first anticipa-, tions. We have faithfully tried to make a newspaper worthy the con fidence and support not only of the people of our own race, but of our friends throughout tho land. Ve have pledged our sacred honor, and we will keep our word, to devote our time, our money and the best energies of our lives to this enterprise, to the end that the equality and univerBal brotherhood of man shall be establishd. As a business enterprise The Leader has thus far been eminently successful. We have paid cash for everything, and The Leader can proudly look tho whole world in tho face and say she owes not any man. The measure of our 3uccess in the futuro must depend upon the patronajre of our friends. Wo know that our salvation lies in making a good newspaper and keeping out of debt. To this end we ask our friends to aid us by a liberal patronage and prompt payments. Every colored man in the land, and especially in Indiana, should aid in the permanent establishment of this enterprise as an entering wedge to the business and litorary world. Every white friend of our race should aid us in this honwt effort for th moral

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and intellectual elevation of our people. This aid can be effectively extended by sending to The Leader a cash subscription. Only a trifling sacrifice is required, and with many, especially of our white friends, the price of our subscription would bo no sacrifice at all, while the com bined aid of many would be to The Leader a permanent endowment. If any see this who have not subscribed for The Leader, subscribe at once, and let every subscriber secure an other, and then good work will go go forward to a glorious triumph. The Republican State Convention, of Indiana, has been called to meet in Indianapolis, on the 25th of February, 1880. Let the people hurry up our peti tion to the governor, so that Indiana may not much longer be disgraced by the imprisonment of a man for marrying a white woman. "We are glad to note the appoint ment of Hon. John C. New as chairman of a committee to invite the National Republican convention to assemble in this city. The appoint ment is an eminently fit one. Mr. New never does things by halves, and mark our words, he'll "fetch" that convention. William R. Davis, business agent of the 'Progressive American," a newspaper published in the interest of the colored people of New York, was refused admittance to the mati nee performance at the Grand Opera house in New York City. Mr. Davis is spoken of by the New York Trib une as heinfr a black man. well-dress- . inUlii8,t and well educated. Civil and criminal proceedings have been instituted in tho U. S. Court against tho proprie tors, who will undoubtedly be made to feci the strong arm of tho law. Hayti. Frank Leslie's of last week contained a fine picture of General Solomon, the new President of Hayti. Gen. Solomon has just announced his cabi net, which gives general satisfaction. He appears to bo a man of excellent sense, ins aavice to tne young men ofIIayti could be taken with profit by a good many young men in tho United States, the acme of whose am bition is to hold an office. Ho says that Hayti is ruined by too much politics that young men are trying to hold offices who ought to I . .... . mi r hold the Tlouf?ti. Tne vounff men 01 - 1 TT a 1 A. ' iiayii, anu oi our own country as well, should know that there is a thousand fold more happiness in the business and professional vocations of life than in office holding. A Question for Edi'ors and Newspaper Writers. We would like to ask the newspaper men of this country, why it jg that they write tho words Irish, Indian, German, Spani8h, Chinese, Hawaian, and the like, with an initial capital letter, Und then drop down to a small n when they write the word Xeffro? Why do you do this? Is there any sensible reason for it? Is it not borrowed from the vocabulary of the slaver, the overseer and the kidnapper? Is it not a part of tho systematic effort made in the days of slavery to utterly and completely brutalize 1 WW tho Negro race in this country? You write the words cattle, horse, dog and negro all alike, so far as capitals are concerned. If an immigrant, howover is made a watchman, your re porters inform us that an Irish, Ger man, orScandinavian gentleman re ceived an appointment to the police force you get in the capital every time. Finally, w would like to ask you if

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such a method of spelling the word Negro in your papers won't have tho tendency to belittle us in the eyes of the ignorant rabble, who are barely able to read All who go to school only a few years are taught that proper names, such as tlie names of cities, counties, nations and races begin with capital letters; and when they take up your papers, they find this to be the case until the Negro is reached, when, they find him dished up without the use of a capital This naturally begets a feeling of contempt towards our race in the minds of the ignorant. As Editor Harding, of the Herald, is gaining a national reputation as a word critic, we should like to hear his opinion on this matter. The Exodus. Last Saturday a car load of immigrants from North Carolina passed through tho city en route for Greencastle. A reporter of The Leader visited and interviewed them at the union depot. Ihey are all farmers from the vicinity of Goldsborough. They are a fin looking set of men, of more than average intelligence. They have no desire to locate in the cities, but wish to get into the coun try where they can find employment with the prospect of being able in a short time to purchase homes. They all tell the same story of the fraud, persecution and brutal treatmeut to which they are subjected in the South. No candid man who talks with these people and .mingles with them, can believe any of the stories of colonization so industriously circulated by Democratic papers and politicians. Theso people are not the paupers and riff-raff of tho Southern cities. They are the industrious farmers and laborers from tho country the very bone and sinew of the land. Many of them have money and property at home. One of the immigrants above mentioned had about two hundred and fifty dollars, and others sums varying from twenty-five to a hundred and fifty. Indiana needs such men to develop her resources, and it is strange that men of pretended intelligence will allow a blind prejudice to put them in opposition to a movement that must tend greatly to the material wealth and prosperity of the State. These people leave the South because they are defrauded and robbed of their honest earnings, denied their political rights, and otherwise brutally used by the semi-barbarous whites of the South. They come to Indiana be cause they can find employment with honest employers, and human treat ment in civilized cemmunities. Let them come, and let all good citizens lend a helping hand to the honest effort these poor people are making to better their condition and make a fu ture for their children. The New York Sun, a leading Democratic paper, bronght down upon its devoted head the anathemas of the Democratic press throughout the land because it truthfully said, after the elections, that the Democratic party appeared to be finished. For m. m a a the life of us we can not 6ee why they should abuse the Sun so for this re mark, unless it is a criminal offense for a Demcratic paper to tell the a a. truth. Of course it is not customary for them to do so; but when one of them, overcome by the mortification and chagrin of defeat, lets slip a lit tie gem of truth, we dont like to see it crucified. In fact we will not stand by and see it done without a protest which we hereby record. Congress convenes on Monday next, and the yawp of the brigadier will be abroad in tho land. And still The Leader booms. Send in your subscriptions and augment the "boom."

True of Indiana, and Kansa-j, Too.

The more ignorant negroes were deluded by the most cruel falsehoods. They were told that friends, employment, lands, awaited their arrival in Kansas. Sentinel. And they were told tho truth. Those who went to Kansas found generous friends, who received them kindly and cared for their wants. They found tho employment promised, and many have already secured homes. In Indiana, laborers are in great demand. We do not need mechanics so much as we do farmers and laborers. In city and country, there is a great demand for women and girls to do house work. This demand is particularly presssng among the farmers in many localities, who find it difficult, and often impossible, to secure sufficient help to do the house work. Our friends in the South, who wish to become citizens of Indiana, need pay no attention to the mad ravings of Democratic papers and politicians. In another column we publish a report of the permanent organization of au association for the relief of any destituto immigrants who may come to this State. Kev. Wm. C. Trevan is president of the association, and Mr, R. B. Bagby chairman of the executive committee. The entire committee is composed of gentlemen who have tho confidence of the communi. ty in the highest degree; aud should they appeal to the public for aid in caring, temporarily, for those poor people who are fleeing from a land of persecutors and assassins, we know their appeal will meet with a liberal response from tho good people of Indianapolis. Apropos of the Nelson Petition. About a year ago John C. Tinsley, a citizen of Virginia, went to Washington, D. C, and married a white woman Upon his return to Virginia he was arrested for the onense, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary. The colored people interested themselves in the matter, and carried the case to the Supreme Court of tho United States. On Tuesday last, they were gratified to learn that Chief Justice Waite had granted a writ of error to the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Indiana Democrats oppose the im migration of industrious colored la borers from the South, and Missouri Democrats are equally hostile to tho mmigration of white people from New England and other Northern States. The same brutal, unmanly and unpatriotic spirit governs in both cases. Democratic politicians care far less for tho material interests of iho State, than they do for the su premacy of the worst political organization that ever cursed any land. The campaign of 1880 was opened at Columbia, South Carolina the other day, by the assi nation of William Xix, brother of the postmaster at Blackville, who was shot in the back some time ago, by a Blackville Democrat.The Northern Democrats are dededly opposed to such an carJy open ing of the campaign, but Southern blood is hot, and chivalry must have employment. The conquering hero comes 1 Remember, that on the 9th of December Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the patriot, soldier and statesman will be tho guest of Indianapolis and the Hoosier State. Let tho whole State turn out, and give him the grandest welcome ever recorded I Another revolution is brewing in Mexico. The bugles of war are being sounded, and in a few clays, or weeks at most, the papers will teem with the bloody carnage and rapine desolation, for which tho people of that country are noted. Work that a white man would do for a dollar, the pauper Negro would be required to perform for a quarter of that amount sentinel. You aro mistaken. He left the South on account of such treatment as that. One of these importations confessed that ho had no money. bentinel. He thought you wanted to bor row it. Thanksgiving was observed yestor day, by services in most of the churches, and entertainments in the evening. Not a Negro has a dollar to save him from perishing. Sentinel. That ii a lie.

Colored Soldiers' Reunion. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 17, 1879. Editor Leader I heartily concur with your article in last week's paper concerning a reunion of colored soldiers, and would suggest an annual meeting of colored solders at such time and place as an executive committee might direct. I would suggest the calling of a small number of soldiers together at once to form an executive committee, to make arrangements for a grand reunion of colored soldies, to be held at Indianapolis as early in the spring as possible. It should be announced as early as possible, so that everybody will have ample time to make arrangements to come to the Hoosier capital and have a good time. When the committee is formed, it should prepare an interesting programme, assigning each man his duty, so that he may prepare for it. Hoping to hear from others upon the same subject, I remain Yours, J. A. Braboy. Terre Haute News.

Scat, you sk Q. Cumber 1 Israel Price has gone to Nokomis, Ills. Mrs. Aaron Roberts, of Otter Creek, is quite sick. The much-talked of "partition" of Turkey occurred Thursday. Mrs. Lou Purry, of Viucennes, is visiting relatives in this city. C. A. Washington addressed the church aid society Monday evening. Who touches a hair of yon gray head (Non Dum's). dies like a dog! March onl They call him happy John Lewis now, because he is the father of a beautiful, bouncing girl . - Mrs. Amanda Lore has returned to the city from Troy, O., the home of her father, G. 0. Greene, Esq. My dear country cousin, Q. Cumber, please come over and see me, and I will endeavor to make it warm for you while you stay. Rev, Mallachi Anderson occupied the pulpit at the Baptist church last Sunday evening, and preached an able and interesting sermon. , Mrs. Maria Price has returned from Indianapolis, and has taken a house on Moffat street, where she and her husband and daughter will reside. Mrs. Mary Fauver, of Greene county, was in the city last Sunday. She and her husband, Mr! George Fauver, expect to move to Worthington soon. Miss Carrie Hill, of Indianapolis, and her brother, James Roberts, of Lost Creek, were in the city recently on their return from Chicago. While here they visited the colored school. The compositor who sets up the word Irish with an initial capital I, and right afterwards puts the word Negro in shape with a small n, ought to have his head shampooed with a capital C(lub). It's a hydrogen gas works I keep, is it, Mr. Non Dum? "Well, now, just wait till I turn it loose on jou, old man, and you will think it is a powder magazine or a forty thousand horse power steam engine. Just wait I have been scalped so much here of late that I begin to feel a vacancy on top of my head. In order, however, to forestall any and all punsters, I desire to state that there is no vacancy on the inside. The "goneness" is all confined to the outer surface. Some nights ago as I lay dreaming of I "suckers" and how to catch them, the following beautiful and original thought flashed through my m;nd like a meteor athwart the skies. " I give it verbatim et literatim as its spit essence left its im pression on my memory: "Lay on, valorous Q Cumber MacDuff! and coward be who next time (clandestinely) cries hold, enough!" Q. C. will discern the point There was a very fine entertainment at the methodist church Thanksgiving eve ning. Speeches were made by J. H. Lott, It. C. Greere and E. R. Bagby. There was alio some very fine sinking by Mrs. Merick, Mies Howard, Mrs. Rocheil, J. Sims, Lsq , and others. There was a festival also at the Baptist church. The M. H. and B ball came off on Thursday evening according to programme, and was a fine affair. The Saturday Courier, of this city, Jno. O. Hardesiy, editor, is one of the best weekly newspapers published in the state. It was started under very discouraging circumstances, but under the able man agement of Mr. Hardesty it has been successfully placed on a paying basis, and has done a herculean work towards reuniting and rebuilding the Republican party in this county. Long may the Courier banner wave with Hardesty at the helm and the name of U. S. G. at the masthead. Q. Cumber quotes the assertion of an Irishman that tue best way to kill a skunk is not to beat him to death, but let him alone and he will kill himself, and wants to know, what I think about it. Well, Q. C, "me darllnt," having duly pondered over this all-important matter, I have arrived at the conclusion that the eon of Erin was about right. I was just getting my gun and fowling-piece in readiness to go a gunning for you, but since hearing Pat's learned opinion as to the best way of securing your extermination, I have concluded not to do so. I will let you go, and you will die soon enough from superabundant inhalation of your own peculiarly delectible odors. A learned writer in descantintr upon the hygienic qualifies of the various articles of food in common use, gives a table of tne percentage oi nutriment matter in each article. Some . range as high as 95 percent, while others eo down verv low. But the lowest of all is Q. Cumbers, which contain only about 5 per cent, 'of nutritive food. This a nrettv bad showinc for that particular vegetable, but I ask as a special favor to myself that none of your readers apply tne o per cent, standard to the articles of your Q. Cumber corres pondent, in order to determine the amount of nutritive matter they contain. Such a course wouia be at once both crael and UBjaat - ' V;

Democratic statesman are not rushing to the front at a break-neck speed as candidates for congress, in this district, to an alarming extent. There is a good deal of method, too. in their madness. They are not blind, and can therefore see the bandwriting on the wall. The district is Republican, and no Democrat need apply. It is not a pleasant thing to be beaten when you want to be elected. In a large measure it destroys a man's confidence In things mortal und earthly, and makes him cuss somebody and long for a secluded place in which to get drunk and quietly down and die. Our Democratic statesmen are therefore not to blame for their lukewarmne8s in coming to the front HlJfl)UEvansville News.

The Knights of Wise Men met and did some work for thegood of their order. The colored people are doing well here, and have a bright future before them Their motto is, "Work while it is day.M The Leader will be on sale on our streets every Saturday, and will increase in sale each week, as it is the favorite paper among usThe programme for the next meeting will be: Miss Porter, essay; recitation by Miss Glen; song by Mrs. Sheldon, and address by Mr. Z. M. Anderson. Our Elder is earnestly interested in the liquidation of the church debt All that i3 necessary to make a success of this society, is the full co-operation of the members of the church. Let all lend a händig The Organ Association will meet next Tuesday evening, and a good programme and abundant refreshments will be had, under the management of Mrs. M. Findi ley, president and Miss L A. Wilson Sec. Literary Society will discuss at next meeting, subject: Resolved, That the colored people are doing more to injure themselves than the whites are doing to injure them. Professor S. Watkins and Mr Z. M. Anderson are leaders in the discussion. t The Sunday School Teachers' Aisociation will meet at the parsonage, on Thursday evening, at 7:30 o'clock. The teachers find these meetings very instructive and strengthening; also socially agreeable. Evansville can well boast of a large corps of pood laborers in both Sunday Schools. In co-operation and union there V, is success. The young ladies Church, Aid and Literary Society, met Tuesday evening, Nov. 25. Order of exercises was, as usual, very interesting. W. H. Beecher, president, Mrs. 8. C. Anderson, secretary; seng by the young ladies of the Church Aid; address by Mr. S. Watkins, subject: "Shooting stars and like phenomena," All were highly pleased with his remarks. A selection was then rendered by the young ladies. Roll call, collection of dues, etc. The Organ Association met on Tuesday evening of this week, Rev. M. Lewis in the chair, and Miss Lucy Wilson, secretary. After music by the choir and prayer, dues were collected, and the programme read. Professor Nat Allen delivered an able address, subject, "Deception. He carried us back to the days of Judas Iscariot, and brought us gradually down to the E resent showing at each step that we as nraan beings, of all grades of society, are more or less deceiving or being deceived. Mrs. White and Mr. Carry then sang some of their finest selections. Miss 6. F. Moting, one of our teachers and a graduate, read a most excellent essay on tbe "Power of God as seen in the beauties of Creation," which showed great learning and research. The organ was manipulated by Miss Wilson and Mrs. Findley, who gave us some of their best, and they are good performers. ALPHA.. Vincennes News. Q. cumber is in the trapping business this fall, judging from the way he wrote o rerre Haute. On the leeward side, Q I The best sineers in tb ritv r thm Misses Jfaggie Baker and Josephine Lewis. Our orator is in the person of Hon. John S. Clark. The most popular roune lady in the city is Miss Jennette Stewart Her popularity arises from her ability to perform upon tne organ. Q. Cumber is blooming again, and has a feature of sarcasm placed directly under his left eye. This feature is periodicaL and shows itself every two monthi. Non Dum visited E. F. H.. of Evans ville, and found him as usual, very busy. E. F. Ha. "Our Age" is a neat little sheet, and bids fair to be a power for good in Indiana and other states. All Evansville had a word for Non Dum. for as soon as I met Mrs. Green McFarland, she addressed me as never before: "That's Non Dum.' This is the thin that Q cumber spoke of. Miss Georgia Flowers tm Irvtl'n pleasant and beautiful, as her name indi cates- Non Dum met her. and wm n couraged by the thought of "blessed is the 4.1 A. 1 T . M man uiai jovea r lowers. Non Dum takes the anthnritv i the names of the Evansville teachers: Professor Walkins and wife, Prof. J. M. Anderson and wife. Pmf. W. TT taai,aand wife, Prof- E. F. Horn and that's all; iiiioo uuv.j ii uouu( JUIBS xiauie ivimbro, Miss Sarah Moting, Miss Ella Glean or perhaps Mrs. James W. I write merelp from observation. No city in Indiana has a finer corns of teacher than has Evansville. Nox Drv Cleveland (O.) News. The Leader is gaining ground here. Non Dum must be nearly through with Caesar. The brass band (colored) of Columbas, Ohio, is progressing finely. , Miss Tillie Wright is thought to be teaching ßchool in or netr St Louis. Some time aeo there appeared in the Voice, of this city, an announcement that Mr. James M. Telley was to be married soon. He is still in the city and not married. At Gal ion. O., June 10 'SO, the annual reunion of the late officers of the United States infantry, (colored) will be held This is something like the colored soldiers reunion which the people of Indiantpoli are trying to have held there or serae other convenient place.